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Darwin Deez announces new album, reveals the world’s best kisser
By Andy Malt | Published on Thursday 24 May 2018
Darwin Deez has gone and announced his fourth album, ‘Ten Songs That Happened When You Left Me With My Stupid Heart’. Along with this news, he’s put out new single ‘The World’s Best Kisser’.
Among other things, he says the new album will have lyrics. Proper lyrics, mind, not just some words. “Ever since I bought my first CD – ‘Last Splash’ by the Breeders – I’ve been internally railing against the kind of vague nonsensical stuff that passed for lyrics in the 90s”, he explains. “It’s not that it was objectively bad, but it was so cryptic and over my thirteen year old head that it infuriated me. Everyone is getting a free pass, lyrically”.
He goes on: “I’ve always respected country songwriters because they’re some of the last ones standing, lyrically. They’re some of the last writers not to be getting away with murder out here. They don’t mess around in Nashville.”
The new single, he adds, is “a reflection on the mystery of attraction and the attraction of mysteries”.
“After writing the song, I learned via Joseph Campbell of Thomas Mann’s concept of ‘erotic irony'”, he says. “[That is the idea] that flaws/imperfections are what make a person identifiable within a piece of devotional art” he goes on. “And so to write a love song that is truly about a specific person is to write something that cuts the person down to size a bit. Which is paradoxical but true – that in order to glorify someone in a love song, you might point out their defects”.
Watch the video for ‘The World’s Best Kisser’ here:
